Article by Eduard Apostol – published on Thursday, September 11, 2025, 18:49 / Updated Thursday, September 11, 2025 6:51
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, 57, is prepared by U Cluj – Rapid (Friday, Cluj Arena, 9:00 pm), even though he encountered problems with Capradossi and Drammeh who returned to Transylvania after exhausting roads on the occasion of their nationals. Instead, he can play The new Postolachi arrived
U Cluj – Rapid is one of the hottest matches of the stage, when resuming the championship. Ioan Ovidiu Sabău will take place with an undefeated team at the beginning of the season, a band with which he was a champion in 1998 and in 2003, along with the Romanian Cup and twice the Super Cup.
Neluțu Sabău is also respected by the supporters of the Rapid for the devotion shown on the field in the white-river shirt. On Friday night, from 9:00 pm, on Cluj Arena, it will be an open duel to any result, especially since the “red hats” target the play-off and be at the top of the standings. U are looking for the first victory at home this season of superlig.
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău quickly analyzed: “Good team on the counterattack”
“Rapid is a team that trusts, it has pretty good results. It is a good counterattac team, which makes an advanced pressing. Let's see what it will look like on Friday, as a team, if we look very good, if we put them in difficulty and control the match, as we propose to each game.
We have to make them run without ball, to be inspired by the box, to have more personality and we have to get the 3 points, “said Sabău.
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău is waiting for Virgiliu Postolachi to confirm in U Cluj
The 57 -year -old coach had good news at the end of Mercato. Virgiliu Postolachi, 25 years old, ex-cfr Cluj, and Omar El-Sawy, 21, ex-brown, arrived under his command. Sabău also explained the situation of the internationals in the lot.
“During this period I managed to bring about all the players at a good level of training, I mean those who were here. Those who went to the national teams came with certain problems from a physical point of view, unrelated, with certain distances, especially Capradossi and Drammeh.
I rely on first of all those who were here on the team, who trained, are rested. It is much easier to control a player who was here and I know at what level he is, I would be very wrong.
(Will Postolachi play with Rapid?) I hope yes, he had a pretty little distance. He's a player who hope to confirm. He is an attacker I needed, now it is up to him and time will prove if I made the good choice. I am here to help him progress, to be very good and to help us.
He is a player who has to integrate very quickly, he has to understand what the goals, the atmosphere, the claims of this team are. He will be accepted and respected by everyone as long as he has achievements, he will be physically, emotionally involved, he will want to help this team, “added Sabău.
The following week we will train in very good conditions, it shows that the playing field in the base “Iuliu Haţieganu”. Once again, thousands of thanks, because I, as a coach, needed this investment, a land that we can train very well
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, coach u Cluj
